I know atheists come from all walks of life, but for some reason I've got it in my head that most are highly-educated and... well, way smarter than me. I myself have got only a high school diploma and a college certification under my belt and I guess I'm feeling a little inadequate.

Sure, I love learning and I'm eating up knowledge like nobody's business now that nothing is off limits to me, but I've no real desire to "go back" to college and I'm wondering if I should feel bad about that.

I probably shouldn't, but you know... I think about this shit too much.

Formal education is much more to do with employment than with learning things. Well, it's not like they're unrelated, but you can't go far wrong if you're just finding time to study things that interest you.

Looks like you have more edumacation than I do. I did get a little college in, but nothing that really matters. I'm like you though, I try to learn as much as I can when I can. Hanging around here has helped a ton, there's a lot to learn from the smartypants that frequent the TTA. And most are more than willing to help you out with questions and point you in the right direction.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

(06-08-2013 11:58 AM)evenheathen Wrote: Looks like you have more edumacation than I do. I did get a little college in, but nothing that really matters. I'm like you though, I try to learn as much as I can when I can. Hanging around here has helped a ton, there's a lot to learn from the smartypants that frequent the TTA. And most are more than willing to help you out with questions and point you in the right direction.

Yeah, that's really all I've got, too - is some college. I took a little certificate program that taught me how to type properly and familiarize me with various programs used in an office environment. Basically a clerical-type certification. Nothing fancy.

(06-08-2013 11:58 AM)evenheathen Wrote: Looks like you have more edumacation than I do. I did get a little college in, but nothing that really matters. I'm like you though, I try to learn as much as I can when I can. Hanging around here has helped a ton, there's a lot to learn from the smartypants that frequent the TTA. And most are more than willing to help you out with questions and point you in the right direction.

Yeah, that's really all I've got, too - is some college. I took a little certificate program that taught me how to type properly and familiarize me with various programs used in an office environment. Basically a clerical-type certification. Nothing fancy.

Do you plan to do more formal education?

Regardless, the secret is curiosity and reading. Read lots of different things. Except Twilight - that will rot your mind.

Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.

(06-08-2013 11:58 AM)evenheathen Wrote: Looks like you have more edumacation than I do. I did get a little college in, but nothing that really matters. I'm like you though, I try to learn as much as I can when I can. Hanging around here has helped a ton, there's a lot to learn from the smartypants that frequent the TTA. And most are more than willing to help you out with questions and point you in the right direction.

Yeah, that's really all I've got, too - is some college. I took a little certificate program that taught me how to type properly and familiarize me with various programs used in an office environment. Basically a clerical-type certification. Nothing fancy.

Right on. I'm fairly certain that I came away from my college experience with many fewer brain cells than I went in with. I had to study my religion before I could gain an appreciation for what actual knowledge is, and how important it is to have it.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.